The Internet has made book burning impossible and redundant at the same time. — John Alejandro King Copy Share Image
“BOOK FOURTH.—TO CONFIDE IS SOMETIMES TO DELIVER INTO A PERSON'S POWER” — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“Romantic novels, the kissing scenes, the ditching scenes have taught the youth of India more English than all the English classes in… — Sneha Mehta Copy Share Image
“When I was a child I read books for entertainment and information; I now think of books as lifeboats.” — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
The hardest thing in the world for a writer is to amass a readership. So many good books come out, and so… — Patrick deWitt Copy Share Image
“A person that doesn't read and doesn't have any ethics complaining about a writer feels like a Chihuahua barking at a Rottweiler.” — Robin Sacredfire Copy Share Image
An essay is not an op-ed that tells its reader what to think. An essay is a complicated working-out of one's own… — Amitava Kumar Copy Share Image
Other people, including me, have written books with main characters who were old and rich. Or old and brilliant. Old sages, old… — Elizabeth Moon Copy Share Image
Everything that you read is an influence on everything you write, and you want to draw as many elements into your work… — Walter Jon Williams Copy Share Image
One of my favorite authors to read is Eric Ambler, who helped pioneer the form of realistic suspense novels. — David Grann Copy Share Image
Literature especially has an interesting relationship to photography - to observation, to description, to fiction: taking something that you see and elaborating,… — Larry Sultan Copy Share Image
I really have to think of the things fiction can do that film can't and play to the strengths of the novel.… — Kazuo Ishiguro Copy Share Image
“These things you know.” Scarlett shook her head in a mock amazement. “Where do you get all this stuff from ” “Books… — Kate Forsyth Copy Share Image
“I'd known since girlhood that I wanted to be a book editor. By high school, I'd pore over the acknowledgments section of… — Bridie Clark Copy Share Image
I'm not a good writer, and I don't care. Unfortunately, after I left college, I didn't have time much for literature. I… — Norman Finkelstein Copy Share Image
Isn't it curious how one has only to open a book of verse to realise immediately that it was written by a… — Edith Sitwell Copy Share Image
“A plot, whether abandoned by a reader or pursued rapturously, remains itself, and gets where it is headed even if nobody is… — Gregory Maguire Copy Share Image
“He has the sense that up to this moment his life has been a sham; he yearns to live properly, to reflect… — Stefan Zweig Copy Share Image
Normally, I spend a week on the outline and take two weeks to write the book. — R. L. Stine Copy Share Image
These are my wakeup cupcakes, some anti-depressants and a cellphone book. — Courtney Love Copy Share Image
You've really got to start hitting the books because it's no joke out here. — Harper Lee Copy Share Image
I love 19th-century Russian literature, the avant garde, the Soviet period. — Amor Towles Copy Share Image
All good research-whether for science or for a book-is a form of obsession. — Mary Roach Copy Share Image
